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For decades, astronomers have debated how the solar system's planets formed. However ... circles that are arranged concentrically around the sun and lie on the same plane. (If you viewed them ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets have different compositions? Herbert WichTitusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have variable ...

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Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...